The shielding sector has a very solid base of technical skills, concludes Gianfranco Bellin. “Our companies produce certified and safe products, which comply with the most stringent international regulations. In recent years, all the brands in the sector have strengthened their technical offices and internal skills for research and development. Proof of this is also the birth of new yarns deriving from the experimentation and recycling of technical fabrics. Polyester yarn derived from PET and a fabric made with acrylic yarn are already available on the market, which can be used again in the protection sector or in fashion, furniture and industry in general. Now we are working on the recycling of PVC”.
l trend – accelerated in the last year – of always being outdoors, even in cold seasons, has brought with it an important evolution in many sectors of furniture, kitchens, finishing products, all designed for the outdoors. A sector that is increasingly permeated by the domesticity of solutions also with respect to integration with home automation systems, IoT solutions, up to the management through voice assistants. It is on digitalization, as well as on energy, that the evolution of this large sector will be played out.